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Patented Mar. 4,1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT UEEICE.

CHARLES A. TATUM, OF NEWA YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO VHI'IALL, TATUM da CO., OF SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR SHAKING BEVERAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,462, dated March 4, 1890. Application filed May 18, 1889. Serial No, 311,223. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be-it known that I, CHARLES A. TATUMLa resident of the city, county, and State of New York,haveinvented an Improved Apparatus for Shaking Beverages, of which the following is a specification.

The object of myinvention is to provide an apparatus for shaking beverages that`will be simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and efficient in use.

The invention consists in the novel details of improvement and combinations of parts that will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, wherein- Figure 1 is a front elevation of an apparatus constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation ot the same, partly in section, on the plane ofthe line c c, Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a similar View of a modification.

The letter A in the accompanying draw-l ings represents a frame or upright that is adapted to'be secured to a table or other support a by means of athumb-screw 19,01* otherwise made stationary.

B is a horizontal arm or bar that is pivoted to the frame A at d, so that it may rock on its pivot d, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. The rocking arm or bar B is adapted to carry one or more cups or other receptacles D,in which the beverage to be shaken may be placed. The cups D may be carried by the rocking arm B in any convenient manner. In the drawings they are shown resting upon disks c, carried by the arm B, and are covered by caps f,that are held down by screws g, that work in arms 7i on the rocking bar B. The rocking arm B connects with a yspring E, that passes at one end through an eye F on the frame A. The spring E in Figs. l and 2 is in the form of a long narrow blade, whichv A is adapted to be freely bent, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. I; but any other kind of spring may be used. The rocking bar Bis also preferably provided with a handle G, which maybe grasped by the hand of the operator in using the apparatus. y

In operating this apparatus to shake a beverage the latter is rst placed in the cup D and its cap f suitably fast-cned. The operator then grasps the handleG and moves the same back and forth,whereupon the arm B will be rocked on its pivot d and the cups D moved as in dotted lines, Fig. 1. As the arm B is thus rocked,the spring E will be bent and strained alternately in opposite directions, imparting to the arm B and to the cup it carries a peculiar vibration, which will produce the desired result of thoroughly shaking the contents of the cup.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the spring E is spiral, and is connected at one end with the frame A at F2 and at its other end with an arm B2, projecting from the bar B. The action of the spring E in Fig. 3 is similar to that in Figs. l and 2.

Having now described my invention, what I claim isl. The frame A and rocking cup-bearing arm B, pivoted thereto, combined with the spring E, and handle G, connected to said bar B, the spring E, extending downwardly from one side of said rocking bar, and the handle G, extending in the opposite direction and from the opposite side ot said bar B and in line with the spring E, substantially as described.

2. The stationary frame A and rockingbar B, pivoted to the frame A, and having the disk e, arm 7L, and cap f, combined with the removn able receptacle D, carried by the bar B, and the spring E, which is connected with the bar B and with the stationary frame A, substantially as described.

CHARLES A. TATUM.

Witnesses:

O. H. LEsTER, HARRY M. TURK. 

